New Zealand Garden Bird Survey

New Zealand
Garden Bird Survey

New Zealand Garden Bird Survey

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What are our garden birds telling us?

Birds act as backyard barometers – telling us about the health of the environment we live in. They are signalling significant changes in our environment over the last 10 years. We should be listening.

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research has distilled a substantial information base – bird counts gathered by New Zealanders from more than 49,000 garden surveys since 2014 – into simple but powerful metrics.

Thank you to all the citizen scientists who participated in the survey in 2024. It was a great turnout.

The 2024 count

The count so far - 14 July 2024
Garden Bird Survey – the count as at 14 July 2024
Counts by region - 14 July 2024
Garden Bird Survey regional count: 14 July 2024